UPDATE: Jen Galek at Saint Arnold just e-mailed to say that the focus group is now full. It’s great to see folks supporting our local brewery. Thanks to everyone who volunteered on short notice. I know what a sacrifice (he said, voice dripping with sarcasm) it must have been to agree to drink free beer […]
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As President Barack Obama prepares for his White House sitdown with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley, an urgent question remains: Which beer will be on the menu? The meeting is part of an effort to defuse the controversy that flared when Crowley arrested Gates outside his home, […]
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There’s a provocative piece in the New York Times today about Harry Potter and alcohol. The piece, by Well columnist (and Houston Chronicle alum) Tara Parker-Pope, looks at the prevalence of drinking in the latest Potter movie, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” Hermione is tipsy. Neville is serving drinks. Ron is sipping mead and […]
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Here’s a photograph I could not have taken in Texas: It was two weeks ago. The setting is the excellent Green Flash brewery just outside San Diego. We hit town, got our rental car and drove straight there to catch the Saturday afternoon tour and tasting. For $6 apiece, Patricia and I sampled terrific IPAs, […]
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If you haven’t noticed yet, Beer, TX has a couple of new features. The blog is four months old and in need of some indexing, so I’ve gone back and added several categories to make it easier to search past posts. For example, you can find posts relating to Saint Arnold, Real Ale or other […]
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Several weeks ago, while emptying some boxes filled with T-shirts and shorts (so we could fill them back up with the long-sleeve stuff), I came across this souvenir from a trip out West more than a decade ago: My friend Kirk and I were in Billings, Mont., to visit another friend, David, my old editor […]
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A couple of quick updates to recent posts: DIVINE RESERVE NO. 8: On Monday, homebrewer Phillip Kaufman was busy helping the Saint Arnold crew make a batch of Divine Reserve No. 8, using his BBBB-winning recipe (scaled, of course, for the larger output). As the ingredients were being mixed together and brought through their cycles […]
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I’m not the only one with vacation on the brain. Getaway tales abound in the blogosphere. And in the ones I’ve been reading lately, the destination is beer. On the local Beer Brotha blog, the American Don this week describes a visit to the “get-lost dive bar” Lovejoys in Austin: Well you walk in, and […]
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Today is Phillip Kaufman’s special day. He will get up early, about 4:30 a.m., leave his home in Conroe and drive to the near-northwest side of Houston. There, he will spend many hours toiling in an un-air-conditioned warehouse/plant in a nondescript little business park. He won’t be paid for this work. In fact, he took […]
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